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The strobing made me have a seizure... but other than that... awesome!

Things like this are very frustrating for me personally because I know an LED is FAR superior to an incandescent bulb, but a bulb is what was in the original, so what do you go with? If you are costuming, I say LED!

i'm all for screen accuracy, but at the same time i don't want my costume held together with duct tape and splinters. i figure if it looks just fine from the outside what i had to put on the inside to get it that way is A-okay. because for trooping i figure our costumes need to be better than screen accurate because the costumes on the set don't have to go through the same kind of torture that a costume at a make-a-wish event does.

Nice... It looks similar to what I jerry rigged for my beacon... I found an LED maglight bulb at loews on the cheap, soddered the wire to a AA battery pack from radio shack and then velcroed the battery pack to the upper inside wall of the jetpack near the beacon. Battery lasts about 6hrs or so with the LED.

I dig yours though because of the slow blink strobe effect! Nice work.

Any idea what the battery life is with this set up and if it changes with the settings?

was talking to sonik about lights the other day and thought about hacking up an LED headlamp that does the samething for mine when i get my new beacon looks great, thuogh instead of twist caps why not go with solder and shrink wrap? or if u wanted it to be able to come apart something like the two pin connector on the fetttronics boards

@Fett 4 Real my reasoning for using twist caps instead of a two pin connector is because on the serenity beacon i've only got about 3mm to work with to pass wires through and i haven't found a connector that small yet, and the LED's i'm using are 5mm so they fit in the beacon itself, just not through the bored out threaded piece. ya dig? but the connections in the light controller and at the led are soldered and heat shrinked.

Here's What I did,
one large 3.5 volt white LED in your Beacon ( Radio shack $1.50)
two AA Batteries = 3 volts (Battery holder Radio shack $2.50)
Positive from LED to Positive From Batteries
in between the negative side you put any flashing LED from (Radios shack $1)
The Flashing led makes the White LED Blink/ Flash
You add a two post switch on the Negative side for $1.50
And your done for $6.50 ish super bright and will run for days
Flashing Bright white Beacon on a budget.